Bye bye birdy (for now)

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Nini
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Choke on your Earl Grey me dearies, the time has come for some famiilar chirruping (or at least the station using it as filler).
A digital radio station which became unexpectedly popular with listeners by playing just birdsong is to go off the air on Monday morning.

It is being replaced by an interactive radio station which will play a mix of indie, urban, rock and jazz music by unsigned artists.

The Birdsong channel had been broadcasting for almost 18 months.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8076381.stm

Worry not, me petals, if another space opens up the tweets of the birdy variety will be heard once more and not limited to 140 characters.
James H
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So. We lose a nice early morning wake-up call to Paul Campbell's pisspoor excuse of a radio station droning out self indulgent shite from anyone with a guitar who has long hair and a soft rock voice. What an absolute shame. I love Birdsong - a nice wake up, especially since I live next to a busy road as well.
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Never fear, the Radio Birdsong website is here.

You need never miss a tweet ever again!
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aeonsource
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The Amazing radio website looks like it was done by some guy who had to hastily install joomla or something, and the entire thing seems to reek of pretention.

Shame, I like birdsong, but with any luck this stupid idea for a 'Web 2.0 Radio station' will go bust soon.
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Given the hoo-haa expect it to reappear on either D1 Test A or D1 Test B anytime soon.
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wells
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Nick Harvey wrote:Never fear, the Radio Birdsong website is here.

You need never miss a tweet ever again!
They're not the only ones in on the act. http://www.birdsongradio.com/

I'm off to register http://www.birdsonggold.com the best in birdsong from the 60's, 70's and 80's.
Inspector Sands
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aeonsource wrote:The Amazing radio website looks like it was done by some guy who had to hastily install joomla or something, and the entire thing seems to reek of pretention.

Shame, I like birdsong, but with any luck this stupid idea for a 'Web 2.0 Radio station' will go bust soon.
Yeah lets hope it goes bust and gets replaced by yet another Heart FM :roll:

As for the station website, that's the least of their worries at the mo... they've not even got a playout system yet (see my link below)
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James H wrote:So. We lose a nice early morning wake-up call to Paul Campbell's pisspoor excuse of a radio station droning out self indulgent shite from anyone with a guitar who has long hair and a soft rock voice.
Not that it's actually started yet, it's just a test loop at the moment

The station only got their license on Thursday and apparently it's been a bit of a rush to get just the test on air (although why they had to get something on air by the 1st june I've no idea). There's some behind the scenes stuff here: http://amazingradio.co.uk/blog I think it's a great idea and hope it works out

Never seen the long term fascination with Birdsong but I'd have thought they could find a chunk of bandwidth for it somewhere.
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